Smart monitoring of seniors behavioural patterns and more specifically activities of
daily living have attracted immense research interest in recent years. Development of
smart decision support systems to support the promotion of health smart homes has also
emerged taking advantage of the plethora of smart, inexpensive and unobtrusive monitoring
sensors, devices and software tools. To this end, a smart monitoring system has been used
in order to extract meaningful information about television (TV) usage patterns and
subsequently associate them with clinical findings of experts. The smart TV operating
state remote monitoring system was installed in four elderly women homes and gathered data
for more than 11 months. Results suggest that TV daily usage (time the TV is turned on)
can predict mental health change. Conclusively, the authors suggest that collection of
smart device usage patterns could strengthen the inference capabilities of existing health
DSSs applied in uncontrolled settings such as real senior homes.
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